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All go back on synonyms

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verb go back on

  • beguile β€” If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
  • fake β€” to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
  • prevaricate β€” to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
  • concoct β€” If you concoct an excuse or explanation, you invent one that is not true.
  • snow β€” Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
  • fib β€” a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
  • fudge β€” a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
  • falsify β€” to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
  • victimize β€” to make a victim of.
  • palter β€” to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
  • plant β€” any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • misstate β€” to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
  • phony β€” not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
  • distort β€” to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
  • dissemble β€” to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
  • misinform β€” to give false or misleading information to.
  • fabricate β€” to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
  • malign β€” to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
  • forswear β€” to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
  • perjure β€” to render (oneself) guilty of swearing falsely or of willfully making a false statement under oath or solemn affirmation: The witness perjured herself when she denied knowing the defendant.
  • dissimulate β€” to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
  • con β€” Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
  • soft-soap β€” Informal. to cajole; flatter.
  • misspeak β€” Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately.
  • overdraw β€” to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
  • misguide β€” to guide wrongly; misdirect.
  • bs β€” BS is an abbreviation for 'British Standard', which is a standard that something sold in Britain must reach in a test to prove that it is satisfactory or safe. Each standard has a number for reference.
  • suspend β€” to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
  • recall β€” to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
  • abjure β€” If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
  • recede β€” to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
  • back β€” If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
  • countermand β€” If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
  • disclaim β€” to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown: disclaiming all participation.
  • retrograde β€” moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
  • sheathe β€” to put (a sword, dagger, etc.) into a sheath.
  • unsay β€” to withdraw (something said), as if it had never been said; retract.
  • jilt β€” to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
  • cross β€” If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
  • trick β€” a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • finger β€” any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • bluff β€” A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
  • knife β€” an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
  • delude β€” If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
  • spurn β€” to reject with disdain; scorn.
  • lapse β€” an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
  • tergiversate β€” to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • schism β€” division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties.
  • leave β€” to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
  • turn β€” to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
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